Green grow the lilacs, all sparkling with dew.' Haunting, evocative, elegiac, the lilacs return to Brattle St.., Cambridge, May 7, 2011.

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

I was out early today. Even before dawn's first light, I was up and about and soon on my mission... to find the first bunches of lilac, and drink in their unmistakable scent with the pristine dew.

What passersby (not too numerous so early) must have thought to see the flowers held against my face, though gently so as not to crush them, I cannot say. I did not care. The lilacs that I love to excess have returned to Cambridge... and with them every memory of this most

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